Social Security's Inspector General: Master death list missing 1.2 million

The Social Security Administration did not record 1.2 million dead people on a national master list, according to a new report.

The 1.2 million dead people found in the SSA Office of the Inspector General study were not listed on the Death Master File, a national record of death information that is used to verify identity and to make sure deceased people aren’t wrongly paid benefits.

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“This missing death information could result in erroneous payments made by Federal benefit-paying agencies that rely on the DMF to detect inaccurate or unreported deaths,” the report states. “The missing death information will also hinder private industry and State and local governments’ ability to identify and prevent identity fraud.”

The SSA provides monthly benefits to retired and disabled workers, as well as their dependents and survivors. But once the SSA receives a death report, it ends the payments. The Death Master File is also used to verify a person’s identity and prevent fraud, and in 2010, President Barack Obama directed federal agencies to review the various databases, including the SSA’s DMF, to ensure an individual’s eligibility before releasing any payment or award.

The IG found in its audit that 1.2 million people who were listed as dead on one record had not had their death information transferred to the SSA’s master database file, the Numident, which is used to create the Death Master File. The 1.2 million deaths either did not make it into the SSA’s file because the beneficiaries’ information did not match up across the various systems or due to staffers incorrectly deleting the deaths, the IG stated.

In a review of a random sample of 50 of the 1.2 million deceased people, the IG found that the SSA correctly ended benefits for each, but did not have the death information correctly filed on the Numident. “As a result, Federal and private entities that rely solely on the DMF to detect deaths would not know these individuals were deceased,” the IG wrote.

The SSA wrote that it agreed with the IG’s recommendations to analyze its death reporting process.

SSA is a government agency and thereby exempt from accountability or to being held to any performance standards. These revelations never pinpoint anyone who will be held to account. Its good to be a civil servant, good pay, outstanding benefits and no accountability.

And America is supposed to trust these incompetent, greedy, and in many cases criminal Marxists who have taken over our government - with 1/6 of the entire economy and health care decisions that should be made between patient and doctor?